Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology
Egypt at Pompeii
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2025
- ISBN 9780198912804
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 42 figures and 31 tables 700
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Short description:
Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology proposes a rethinking of the way in which objects, styles, concepts, and people relate in archaeological interpretation, using Egyptian and Egyptian-styled objects from the houses of Roman Pompeii as a case study and developing a critical new method of analysis termed relational perception.
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Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology proposes a rethinking of the way in which objects, styles, concepts, and people relate in archaeological interpretation, using Egyptian and Egyptian-styled objects from the houses of Roman Pompeii as a case study. Integrating anthropological theories, Mol has developed a critical new method termed relational perception to show how we can better incorporate the messy and intuitive processes of style perception and classification in the Roman past, as well as more generally in archaeological research.
The houses of Pompeii yielded many objects that scholars nowadays would label as Egyptian or Egyptianized. They consist of imported and locally produced objects such as figurines, sculptures, furniture, jewellery, mosaics, or wall paintings. The interpretations regarding their presence and meaning have traditionally mostly been drawn without proper contextual analysis or theoretical underpinnings, and even more problematic: the collection and interpretation of artefacts were based on modern scholarly perceptions of what Egypt entails. Mol shows how this particular Western (and colonial) perception and art historical categorization has influenced our idea of Egypt in the Roman world, and how it still affects the interpretation of foreign objects in general. This book examines in detail how 'foreign' objects and styles were integrated in, and shaped, the Roman world and senses of personhood, and serves as an excellent example to illustrate the complexity that should be integral to the processes of archaeological classification and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Making an Image: Perception and Matter of Egypt
How Things Become Egyptian: Colonizing a Style
Relational Perception in Archaeological Research
Rethinking Egypt in Pompeian Assemblages
Materializations of Egyptian Deities in Domestic Religion
Green-Glazed Demons
Egypt as Style: 'Foreign' Objects in Pompeii
The Style of the Nile and Posthuman Embodiment
Bringing Egypt Back Home
Ritual Place-Making in the Roman House
Egypt for Dinner
Conclusion: Relational Perception and Style in Roman Archaeology
